Kazimir Malevich will be presented as a Ukrainian artist born to parents of Polish origin.

The Stedelik City Museum in Amsterdam will call the artist Ukrainian. Although earlier, it was positioned as Russian. This was reported by the spokesman of the museum, referring to the fact that the artist was born in Kyiv.

This information has already been included in the information boards posted on the museum's website.

Such a step is very important, because the museum's collection contains about 200 works by Kazimir Malevich. They came to the Netherlands during the period of repression against the Ukrainian intelligentsia. These works were left by their author to the architect Hugo Hering, and in 1958 the museum purchased canvases from him.

Meanwhile, the curators of the Metropolitan Museum in New York reclassified three artists as Ukrainian — Ivan Aivazovsky, Arkhip Kuindzhi, and Ilya Repin.

Source: theartnewspaper.com